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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;baseball21, post: 3947578, member: 76863&quot;]Assuming that&#039;s accurate there are many contributing factors that have nothing to do with schooling that can&#039;t be discussed here. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>All of which were the genius ideas of the older generations and flower children that like to dump on the younger generations all the time. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Depends where you are that is certainly true and no doubt true for college with all the of the majors added in order to get more of the federal student loan money pie.&nbsp; There certainly are areas where it is bad and plenty of professors that have no business molding young minds just as there is more &quot;science&quot; happening trying to justify getting grant money than there should be, but overall things aren&#039;t as bad as they&#039;re made out to be. </p><p><br /></p><p>Most people and most teachers go about their day just doing their normal things but that isn&#039;t clickbait enough to make headlines or the news so we never hear about it.&nbsp; The having to teach to a standardized test certainly is an issue that needs to be addressed more than it has been, but the scientific/medical knowledge to name a few are leaps and bounds past what was being taught 40 50 years ago. </p><p><br /></p><p>I really have no interest in trying to turn things into a generational war or whose is the best, but it does annoy me when the absurd comments come out about how younger people are lazy and the problem etc.&nbsp; Every generation says that about the ones that follow and it&#039;s essentially never true and always ignores the fact that it&#039;s actually them who shaped the world into the issues the younger generations are supposedly all failing with.</p><p><br /></p><p>One day the babies of today will be complaining about their grand-kids just the same and their grand-kids will have a greater knowledge base than they do.&nbsp; Short of a huge plague or nuclear war future generations know more than previous ones, it&#039;s just how things work and there&#039;s no reason to believe that is going to change[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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